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The Lakers didn't actually have a serious tactical system last season, and they played in a chaotic manner at the start of the season, almost relying on Wang Chong's individual super abilities to win.
By mid-season, the Lakers gradually found their rhythm and started focusing on defense, first establishing the best defensive system in the league and then scoring and winning games around Wang Chong's individual skill, which gradually got them on the right path.
But this season, the Lakers don't need any tactics at all, meaning Wang Chong finished Durant's individual play, and then collapsed after defeating the opponent, and the game was won.
After beating the Spurs in the first game, this is how the Lakers played throughout the month of November.
Wang Chong averaged 30 points per game, Durant averaged 28 points per game, along with Thompson, who reached the highest level without the ball, and still managed to contribute an average of 18 points per game under the attacks of two scoring maestros controlling the ball.
The Lakers averaged 76 points per game from just those three alone.
In fact, only these three players on the Lakers team scored in double digits.
Kobe Bryant started his retirement tour in the new season. Although he was a starter in all games, he played less than 20 minutes per game and had very little time to hold the ball on the court, averaging only 8 points, 2 rebounds, and 4 assists per game.
However, because his ball possession ratio has greatly decreased, and most of his shots are from open opportunities, Kobe's shooting percentage has recovered, and it's back to around 45%.
With less than 20 minutes of playing time, he can still contribute 8 points and 4 assists with normal efficiency. Kobe Bryant is still helping the team and isn't exactly a burden.
Green, on the other hand, continues doing his old job.
Although Durant's arrival made him unhappy about returning from his starting position to a bench role, because Kobe Bryant became a pseudo-starter, in fact, Green's playing time hasn't decreased, and he still gets about 33 minutes of playing time per game, contributing 7 points, 7 rebounds, and 4 assists.
It should be Jokic who is really affected by Durant's arrival.
In Wang Chong's plan, Jokic was supposed to take on the role of the main interior player this season.
After all, Jokic on the Nuggets had been able to contribute an average of 16.7 points, 9.8 rebounds, and 4.9 assists per game in the 16-17 season, showing solid skill.
At the same time, Jokic of the Lakers accepted Wang Chong's specific training plan from the start, and played more minutes and games. After all, Jokic on the Nuggets couldn't even play in the playoffs in the early days, with his first trip to the playoffs coming in the 18-19 season, much less the finals.
Therefore, the strength of the Lakers' version of Jokic is much greater than the Nuggets' version, and with more playing rights, Wang Chong estimates that Jokic can at least average around 18 + 10 + 5 per game in the regular season.
But now Jokic can only be considered the fourth option for the Lakers, with the ball being shared by Wang Chong, Durant, and Thompson, and the remaining ball-sharing responsibilities are divided with Kobe Bryant and Green. How many possessions can Jokic get in this case?
As a result, Jokic only averaged 9.4 points per game and 4.2 assists in the new season, despite his solid rebounding performance, averaging 10.2 rebounds per game and leading the team in that category.
9+10+4 stats per game… it's a little hard to express with words.
Of course, Jokic himself is still relatively satisfied with this result, and the entire league is full of praise for Jokic's current performance.
Who turned Jokic into a second-round pick?
In his second season, he can nearly average a double-double per game while also dishing out 4 assists, which is not bad at all.
It's just that if someone like Wang Chong knows Jokic's future achievements, they'd definitely feel that the Lakers are truly tyrannical.
This is also the reason Wang Chong asked Durant to only sign a 1+1 contract, as he didn't want Durant to stay with the Lakers for too long, which would not only make the Lakers too invincible but also stifle Jokic's growth and development opportunities.
Throughout November, the Lakers, who practiced a rotating individual strategy, had an outrageously high record.
In three games in October, the Lakers played a total of 20 games and achieved a record of 18-2.
The two lost games were due to Durant's injury absence.
In fact, Durant missed a total of 6 games in November, but the Lakers only lost 2 games, because even without Durant, the Lakers were still ridiculously strong.
In fact, since 2016, Durant's health has been pretty average.
In the original 16-17 season, Durant, who joined the Warriors, only played 62 games in the regular season and 68 games in the 17-18 season. In the 18-19 season, he was finally a bit healthier in the regular season, playing 78 games with a 95% availability rate.
This also shows that the Warriors could still achieve a 73-9 record before Durant's arrival, but the best record of the Warriors after Durant joined was only 67 wins, and in the 17-18 season, it was less than 60+ wins, with the Rockets taking the first seed, due to injury factors.
But when it comes to Durant of the Lakers, there's no need to worry about this.
The first priority for the Lakers will always be Wang Chong, not Durant.
Secondly, Wang Chong has always been very careful about managing injuries in the past, and it's absolutely impossible that Durant has some hidden injury, and he also asked Durant to play with an injury to win the game.
To some extent, the Lakers are a more suitable team for Durant than the original Warriors, and the only regret is that, alongside Wang Chong, Durant has no chance of getting the FMVP.
As the calendar enters December, the Lakers continue to rise, leading all teams, including the Bulls.
On December 25, the Christmas game, the Los Angeles Lakers clashed head-on with the Chicago Bulls for the first time in the regular season.
At the Staples Center in Los Angeles, home of the Lakers, the two teams, considered the best of the new season, faced off.
And this much-anticipated battle ended with a complete victory for the Lakers.
No one expected that when the two teams met, the Bulls would crash like a small shipwreck.
In this game, Wang Chong didn't even activate serious mode, because after facing the Bulls, Durant was extraordinarily energetic, and all sorts of strong shots against James easily helped the Lakers take an absolute advantage on the court.
At the end of the game, Durant scored 38 points to help the Lakers beat the Bulls 121-102.
In the post-game press conference, Durant's face looked refreshed.
He raised his eyebrows!
In recent years, Durant has been suppressed by the heat of James on the Celtics, to the point where he couldn't focus on attacking the ultimate goal: Wang Chong.
Even James couldn't surpass him—so what can Wang Chong say about that?
Especially last season, after James joined the Bulls, the Bulls almost hung up the Celtics and played, which had a huge impact on Durant, and indirectly led Durant to join the Lakers to team up with Wang Chong.
One could only say that fate is kind to reincarnation, and heaven forgives anyone.
James should be feeling depressed again, he just got a championship, and now he's about to start the mode of being defeated every year?
By the end of December, the Lakers' record had reached 33-3, with a winning percentage of 91.6%. If this win percentage continues, it is also expected that the Lakers will surpass the regular season with 70+ wins and become the second team in NBA history to achieve 70 wins, but it's still unknown whether they can break the league's all-time best record of 73-9 held by Wang Chong and the Bulls.
When January arrived, the Lakers were full of dominance, with Wang Chong and Durant each averaging over 30+ points per game in a single month. The Lakers played an exaggerated 15-0 streak, and didn't taste a single loss in January, making the entire league feel hopeless.
"The NBA has truly marked the beginning of the finals, with the super combination of Wang Chong + Durant becoming the ultimate goal that all teams in the league are eager to beat."
In February, the All-Star Weekend arrived.
The Lakers ended up with four selections to the All-Star Game in the 16-17 season.
Wang Chong was chosen for the Western Conference vote, Kobe Bryant and Durant were selected as All-Star starters, and Thompson was selected as a bench player for the All-Star Game.
The format of this All-Star competition is the same as before, still a captain selection system.
Wang Chong was chosen as the captain of the West, and on the East side, James narrowly defeated Curry to become the king of the East and was selected as the captain.
This made James feel like crying for a while.
It's not easy, really not easy.
He doesn't remember the last time he was the king of votes.
Since Wang Chong switched from the West to the East, James hasn't felt what it's like to be a voter.
After Wang Chong returned to the West last season, James deserted to the Bulls to hug Curry's leg, and the final All-Star vote wasn't as high as Curry's.
This year, with his first championship and the addition of FMVP, plus the fact that Curry's usual performance is no longer present this season, his personal stats have dropped to an average of 25+ per game, allowing James to win the Eastern voting king.
During this All-Star weekend, Wang Chong played his usual soy sauce role and watched the excitement, as this year's All-Star Game was indeed very lively.
The most vocal players at the All-Star Game were not Wang Chong, James, Curry, or others who are used to stepping in, but the player with the most explosive performance during the regular season this year: Russell Westbrook!
Although he hasn't experienced the Thunder, three young players, and a love-hate relationship with Durant.
But in the 16-17 season, Westbrook still started the era of reducing the gold content of the triple-double on his own.
Starting from the All-Star weekend, Westbrook averaged 32 points, 11 rebounds, and 10.6 assists per game, and his 30+ triple-doubles per game left everyone stunned. Although Wang Chong's average of 38.4 + 10.6 + 7.4 per game last season was more impactful, after all, Wang Chong couldn't average a triple-double per game.
There has only been one triple-double per game in NBA history, and it was played by "Big O" Oscar Robertson, who averaged 34.8 points, 15.2 rebounds, and 11.4 assists per game in the 1962-1963 season.
But in that era of data explosion, Big O's average triple-double per game wasn't as impactful because just the previous season, Wilt Chamberlain averaged 50 points and 25.7 rebounds per game in the regular season, while Chamberlain averaged 44.8 points and 24 rebounds that season when Big O recorded a triple-double.
Back to the present, once upon a time, people thought that the exaggerated stats from the old desert period were basically impossible to achieve with the improvement of the overall basketball level.
But Westbrook has done it, and Wang Chong, as a time traveler, knows very well that Westbrook can repeat this feat many times in the future.
The astonishing statistical performance has kept Westbrook always at the top of the MVP list despite the mediocre record of the Thunder.
Westbrook has been coveting the All-Star MVP for a long time, and he's not ashamed of the idea of winning the AMVP.
But Wang Chong knows that this year's All-Star AMVP is still not Westbrook's, even if Westbrook scored 41 points, 5 rebounds, and 7 assists in that crazy All-Star game, there's still a player on his team who is even crazier than him.
The thick-browed brother Anthony Davis.
In the 2017 All-Star Game, Brother Thick Brow shot 26 of 39 and scored 52 points and 10 rebounds, setting a new personal record for scoring in a single game at the All-Star Game, and also beat his teammate Westbrook to win the All-Star AMVP trophy.
Unexpectedly, this era has been shattered by Wang Chong, and thick eyebrows and Westbrook actually competed for the AMVP at the All-Star Game.
However, unlike the original, the rules for selecting people from the East and West were announced in advance, so the two didn't become teammates, but opponents.
This made the All-Star Game much better.
Thanks to this, Westbrook, who scored 44 points, 4 rebounds, and 5 assists, was able to win the All-Star AMVP trophy thanks to his team's victory.
And the thick-browed Brother, who scored 51 points just to break the All-Star Game scoring record, could only become a tragic hero on the All-Star stage.
The All-Star Weekend was just an episode, a conversation after dinner, and after it ended, the focus of fans quickly shifted back to the regular season.
And at this moment, there are a few major focal points for many fans.
First, can the Lakers win 70+ games or even surpass the best record of all time held by the Bulls at 73-9?
Second, can Westbrook's triple-double per game be maintained until the end of the regular season?
Third, Westbrook occupies the first place in the current scoring list, and Wang Chong is in second place. Does Wang Chong want to surpass Westbrook in the final moments, win his 11th scoring title, and officially surpass Jordan to claim the number one spot in history?
These questions have also started to arise one after another as the follow-up schedule progresses.
First, Westbrook's triple-double average per game. How could Westbrook, whose goal is this, let his data drop to the triple-double average per game? Westbrook has many chances to make up for this triple-double average by making crazy passes to teammates for assists, and he even lost many games that shouldn't have been lost, which has been criticized. However, to achieve a triple-double average per game, Westbrook can't manage much else.
This also made him lose the intention to compete with Wang Chong on the scoring list, and his average points per game dropped to 31 points.
Meanwhile, Wang Chong worked hard in the second half of the regular season, specifically in the games Durant missed due to injury. Wang Chong dropped 40+ or even 50+ points per game, which greatly boosted his scoring average.
Due to Wang Chong's supernatural performance in Durant's absence, the Lakers' record has not been affected by Durant's absence, and they still maintain an extremely high win rate.
On April 12, 2017, the Lakers defeated the Golden State Warriors 109-98 at home to officially complete all regular-season games.
With this victory, the Lakers' regular-season record was set at 74-8, truly surpassing the original Bulls and holding the best record in league history.
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